Robert Wishart

Robert Wishart was Bishop of Glasgow from 1271 to 1316, succeeding William Wishart and preceding Stephen de Dunnideer.

Biography
Robert Wishart was born in Pittarow, Kincardineshire, Scotland, the cousin of Bishop of St. Andrews William Wishart. He became Bishop of Glasgow in 1271 and was a prominent political figure under King Alexander III of Scotland before becoming one of six Guardians of Scotland following Alexander's death in 1286. When King Edward I of England seized power for himself when given the power to oversee the crowning of a new Scottish king, Wishart became a leader of the Scottish independence movement, and he helped to ratify the Auld Alliance with France. He helped to recruit William Wallace as the leader of the Scottish rebels, and, in 1306, he absolved Robert Bruce for the murder of John Comyn in a church and instead offered him the crown of Scotland in exchange for his continued support for the Catholic Church in Scotland. Following the Battle of Methven, Wishart was captured and imprisoned by the English, and he went blind while in prison. He was released following the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and he died in Glasgow in 1316.